Quote Originally Posted by Lemur View Post
Because the overwhelming goals of the last four years have failed.

  1. Obama will not be a one-term president.
  2. ACA (Obamacare) will not be repealed. And no population in any nation has ever repealed universal health care once enacted.

So the status quo in 2012 is remarkably different from the status quo in 2008 or 2010.
Accepting all of that- they were still returned to their seats for another term. I'm straining how to see this would be seen as a mandate for change....